Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Anyone want a few seeds?, 1 by Kell

Kell wrote:
Veronica, I hear Freeze Proof is the newest one. I do not know if it really works. I was going to buy some but of course never got around to it. It is 32 degrees here now.

You even use bubble wrap! My husband came home early to put my heater in my hoophouse. And I put that frost cloth all over outside on my favorite plants. I even covered my new South African bulbs I am so getting into for they are too expensive to lose overnight. I need to go buy more of the frost cover. I wonder if I have the light stuff, I bet I do. Where did you buy yours Veronica, online? I need the heavier stuff.

I did the dirty deed and cut 2 big trees of my double pink but I left the biggest one. I know it will be a goner so I really should have cut it off too. And I cut 2 of my big Ruthie's. But the tallest one was in full bloom! And its trunk is so woody I left it in hopes it can take it. I know, an error! I just did not have the heart.

I moved my Rothkirch who had 3 blooms open so its head is under my front porch roof. Its pot end is hanging out in the cold. LOL. I should have covered it. I must say my RK is the hardiest and healthiest brug I have. It has lived in the same 15 gallon pot with no new soil for about 3 or 4 years. I have left it out in the frost too a year or 2 and it died back but came back with a vengeance. It is on the side of the house so it only gets watered once in a while so abused and misused. I have had this RK since 2002 or 2003.

I have sent out so many little RKs from it. I plan on repotting it in early spring and getting it in growth mode for I have had a few requests for it again from friends. I hear it is once again a very hot and in demand brug! Reminds me when I got this in 2002 or 2003, so exciting! It was $37 and we all thought that was so very expensive. LOL

Anyway, I have such high hopes especially for the RK x (EP x RK) seeds. The (EP x RK) has great color all the way up and such great tendrils. I am really excited to see what we all get from them.

I have 4 requests from here and 3 more people who directly dmailed me and 2 other friends who want them so I best close this offer. I am not in the exchange, so please dmail me your addresses. One pod is still drying out after I washed the seeds. The other was dried on the plant in November for I wasn't watching it to ripen. OOPS! LOL

Thanks

Here is my double pink just before it got cut today. It had some buds and this just opened bloom. I forgot to answer you Veronica. I just call it my DP, my own cross. I haven't named it yet. I am not so into brugs anymore that I get involved in all that. I stopped dealing with them for about 2 + years except to water just enough to keep them alive. I just got back to them when my best pink bloomed so dark and so pretty early this year and gave me such a thrill. I ran out and repotted the many seedlings I had of Delisa's and my own that were languishing in little gallon pots. I have gone on to other new loves but probably will always have a few brugs around.